Name: What Are The Different Types of Data?
Uploaded: 2023-03-31T08:24:28.044Z
Channel: House of Math
Description: In statistics, information is called data. It can be grouped into four types: discrete, continuous, quantitative and qualitative. This video explains them.

The Englishman John Graunt wrote a book called “Natural and Political Observations …. Made Upon the Bills of Mortality” (1662) where he compiled statistics about death rates. This is considered to be an important early work for modern statistics.

In statistics, information is called data. It can be grouped into four types: discrete, continuous, quantitative and qualitative. This video explains them.

A type of data that can be measured or counted, that has any value within a certain range

Data that is countable or measurable, both discrete and continuous data belong in this category

A type of data not measured with numbers, but instead using words or descriptions

How data is spread into different categories

A range of values between a starting point and an endpoint

Category is a word for type, when organizing data

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